Anew
report based upon state of the art science argues convincingly
that climate change is a much more serious and immediate problem than
previously perceived by even informed publics - climate change is
an emergency that requires urgent mitigation measures not presently
possible in our political and economic systems.

No major
media outlet acknowledges let alone critiques or comments upon or
otherwise covers the report. None. Not AP nor Reuters; not either
ABC nor BBC. Ditto the NY Times, Wash Post, Guardian, Le Monde, Asahi
Shimbun or the South China Morning Post. Not one major news agency,
paper, TV or radio outlet so much as acknowledges the existence of
a report on a subject that is life and death for humanity and most
of the species with which we presently share creation on this small
blue planet.

Conversely,
reports on temporal economic subjects, on flaky topics such as steroid
use in baseball or Asian access to the internet receive wide coverage.
A report on the worldwide increase of GM crops, for only one example,
has 184 news articles listed on Google News including all of the above
major media outlets. The climate change is a life and death emergency
report has 12 news articles listed with the Canberra Times being the
only non-net news source listed.

Uh??? What
gives?

Sutton
and Spratt's Climate Code Red makes the heretical mistake of insisting
that climate change is an emergency requiring an escape from business
as usual, from BAU, and this is the ultimate Chomsky, the ultimate
threat to the business interests of all those owning and employed
by the major media. Sutton and Spratt wrote a report where climate
change is more important than BAU, where climate change isn't just
a problem to be solved within the continuing evolution of our present
socio-economy but where our vast laminate of personal and corporate
plans stretching out into the future is threatened by needed emergency
action.

We can't
have this conversation; we can't debate the necessity of emergency
action that subsumes BAU. The new and ever present climate change
denial is that yes, climate change is real and caused by our greenhouse
gas emissions, but we have at least a half century to solve this problem
and we will develop the policy and technological instruments to mitigate
climate change and the other emerging global-scale problems in the
continuing expansion of the evolving global economy.

Sutton
and Spratt heretically challenge this denial: what are the implications
of the big melt - what was the science, the models and predictions;
what are the lessons to be learned from the Arctic and from the wrongfootting
of the IPCC by too low a climate sensitivity prediction over the past
decade, and from the emerging science of slow feedbacks: the changing
albedo, filling sinks and melting permafrost?

Climate
Code Red dares to speak the brutal truth that we are close to if not
already over a tipping point to runaway warming that requires not
just an immediate and substantial reduction in GHGs but also action
to scrub existing GHGs from the atmosphere.

And, heretically,
such an immediate and substantial GHG reduction can not be accomplished
within BAU and that we therefor need governance innovation such as
the hopeful example of the wartime mobilization which transformed
the American and other socio-economies in order to defeat Hitler and
the Axis during WW2.

Stern made
the point that climate change was the biggest market failure in history
- Isn't our inability to even consider climate change as an emergency
requiring such governance innovation the ultimate failure of democracy?

"These
scientific imperatives are incompatible with the “realities”
of “politics as usual” and “business as usual”.
Our conventional mode of politics is short-term, adversarial and incremental,
fearful of deep, quick change and simply incapable of managing the
transition at the necessary speed. The climate crisis will not respond
to incremental modification of the business-as-usual model.

"There
is an urgent need to reconceive the issue we face as a sustainability
emergency, that takes us beyond the politics of failure-inducing compromise.
The feasibility of rapid transitions is well established historically.
We now need to “think the unthinkable”, because the sustainability
emergency is now not so much a radical idea as simply an indispensable
course of action if we are to return to a safe-climate planet."Climate
Code Red

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